Visa Travel Insights

Within the past five years, global tourism has reached new heights. International tourists now account for more than 1 billion travel arrivals and $1 trillion in spending abroad1. By 2025, the growth in travel spending is broadly expected to outpace the global economy.

Visa Performance Solutions provides unique insights into this new and emerging world of travel. Drawing on the power of the world’s most advanced payment network and billions of transactions flowing through VisaNet every day, Visa can help you better understand—and take advantage of—the key trends in global travel and tourism affecting your business and customers.

Cross-border tourism in Asia is taking off

June 6, 2018

Cross-border tourism from Asia Pacific is booming—outpacing income growth in the region.

The slippery slope of population aging in ski tourism

Top 25 winter ski destinations for international travelers

February 6, 2018

Austria’s Pinzgau-Pongau region of the Alps is ranked #1 in Visa’s list of the top 25 global winter ski destinations,* based on a three-year average of cross-border arrivals according to the Visa International Travel (VISIT) platform.